364 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



broad. Cuticle of gelatinous, colorless or nearly colorless hyphae, 3-5 fi 

 broad, repent or more or less erect and tangled, an ixotrichodermium 

 ( no palisade ) . No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of radial, 

 slightly interwoven hyphae. Clamp connections on the hyphae of the 

 cuticle and the gill trama. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Gregarious on soil, under co- 

 nifers, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Cali- 

 fornia, September-February. 



Material Studied — kexNtucky: Stevenson 16579. California: Rea 

 917, 361. Massachusetts: Bigelow 8387, 8616, 8640, 8686, 8731. north 

 Carolina: Hesler 12371, 16438, 17147, 19386, 21006, 23479. Tennessee: 

 Hesler 4443, 10922 (type, from Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mts. Na- 

 tional Park, Oct. 17, 1937), 13077, 16578, 18157, 18285, 19471, 19477, 

 20201, 22420 (the last forming a fairy ring 15 feet in diameter). 



Observations — The odor, taste, colors, dry stipe, and resemblance 

 to H. pudorinus in stature are the distinctive features of this species. In 

 its colors it closely resembles H. variicolor Murr. The dry stipe and 

 bitter taste distinguish it readily from H. pudorinus. H. arbustivus Fr. 

 sensu Niiesch (1922) is also closely related but differs in its virgate 

 pileus and mild odor and taste. In addition other investigators have 

 usually described the pileus of the latter as more reddish or incarnate 

 tan. 



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Hygrophorus paigei Pammel 



Iowa State Coll. Journ. Sci. 2: 115. 1928 



Pileus 3-10 cm broad, expanded plane, frequently repand and ir- 

 regular, egg yellow, viscid, not virgate. Context thick, firm, pallid, thin 

 on the margin; odor none, taste mild. 



Lamellae arcuate-decurrent, yellowish, thick, subdistant, pruinose, 

 attenuate at both ends. 



Stipe 3-8 cm long, 8-16 mm thick, rufescent, at first with an ap- 

 pressed, glaucous silkiness, glabrescent, innately fibrous, dry, shining, 

 equal or tapering downward, attenuated at the base, often curved, 

 rigid, solid. 



Spores 7-9 X 4 /a, narrowly ellipsoid-lanceolate, or ovoid, smooth, 

 white. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — On soil, among fallen leaves 

 in deciduous woods, Iowa, October. 



Material Studied — iowa: Pammel (type). 



Observations — The type at Iowa State College has a divergent 



